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I find it comforting sometimes to look at the stars and contemplate how my meaningless my existence is. I'm just a tiny spark on a cosmic scale. Even if my life has vast importance to me, everything from love to war and global destruction actually doesn't matter at all to the universe as a whole. Literally nothing I, or the rest of humanity, do will have any significance in the greater context of never-ending space.
I think many people find the idea disturbing, which is probably why so many religions exist. Humans like to feel important and looked after, they like to have answers and guidelines. It's good to have motivations, purpose and joy in life, but when things go badly, reminding myself how cosmically insignificant it is really calms me down.
You know those photo collages that are made up of thousands of other photos, which all come together to make one picture? Even if our cosmic picture has no coherent representation, even if there was no artist who created it with a purpose, it's still beautiful.
I think many people find the idea disturbing, which is probably why so many religions exist. Humans like to feel important and looked after, they like to have answers and guidelines. It's good to have motivations, purpose and joy in life, but when things go badly, reminding myself how cosmically insignificant it is really calms me down.
You know those photo collages that are made up of thousands of other photos, which all come together to make one picture? Even if our cosmic picture has no coherent representation, even if there was no artist who created it with a purpose, it's still beautiful.
Being Funny
Being funny isn't a matter of being clever, or a recitation of wordplay. "Funny" is a way of viewing reality itself. Something is funny when it is unexpected, when you look into the mirror of the world just so and perceive a distorted reflection of what you meant to see.
People look at the 21st century, the grimdark, the endless war, and don't think they see anything funny. Their faces set in the mask of a frown. They cannot perceive that it needs no punchline, because it serves by existing as its own punchline, the same as any other form of humor. They cannot see.
But I do see. I look at their frowning masks from the other direction, and t
In Memory of Robin Williams
I grew up with this man's films and I think a lot of us wanted to see him again. He brought smiles to so many people's faces and I thought his recent slump was something of a hiatus. The last thing I remember him for was the Legend of Zelda commercials a few years back, and even that was a magical experience. It's hard to see him go like this.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/actor-robin-williams-dead-63/story?id=24937522
Maybe I'll try this before I kill myself.
"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole me
State of Affairs
I've lost hope that anyone will care. Rules have replaced judgement. A limited perception clouds greater curiosity. No one cares about something extraordinary unless it affects their personal routine. Wherever I go, I find the same thing. I've sought a place where the extraordinary doesn't have to bother anyone. Where I am no longer perplexed and disappointed. I have found my own demise.
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Actually, it's the other way around, The Steve.
You are standing on a planet that is revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, and orbiting a star at nineteen miles a second. And that sun is moving at forty-thousand miles an hour in an outer spiral arm of a galaxy. That galaxy contains a hundred billion stars, and we are about thirty-thousand light years from the center, and we go round that every two hundred million years. And that galaxy is only one of many, many others.
Now that you're dizzy, think about this.
In all that space, in all that time, there has been one and only one The Steve. Nowhere else has The Steve ever been, and nowhere else will The Steve ever be. Perhaps we are simply advanced little collections of carbon atoms. But we have the potential to make our mark on all that universe in a way nothing else has come close yet. And so do you.
If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
Chin up, old man. We're all in it together.
You are standing on a planet that is revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, and orbiting a star at nineteen miles a second. And that sun is moving at forty-thousand miles an hour in an outer spiral arm of a galaxy. That galaxy contains a hundred billion stars, and we are about thirty-thousand light years from the center, and we go round that every two hundred million years. And that galaxy is only one of many, many others.
Now that you're dizzy, think about this.
In all that space, in all that time, there has been one and only one The Steve. Nowhere else has The Steve ever been, and nowhere else will The Steve ever be. Perhaps we are simply advanced little collections of carbon atoms. But we have the potential to make our mark on all that universe in a way nothing else has come close yet. And so do you.
If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
Chin up, old man. We're all in it together.